Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state, were the owner. When he is not enjoying his paneled and well-equipped office (TV, hifi, radio, air conditioning), he is apt to be stomping about outside, shooting at pigeons with a shotgun, or scaring away stray dogs with a BB gun ("I don't see anything wrong with that. Some have hydrophobia"). One apocryphal story has it that on one pigeon shoot he accidentally pinked a member of the Teachers College Board of Illinois...
...trigger. The piece clicked harmlessly, and Reddick leaped behind a nearby fire truck. "Look, buddy," he shouted, "there's enough cops here to kill you before you can move. Why don't you act sensible?" Still clutching his camera, Reddick sweet-talked his way over to the gun slinger, grabbed his shooting hand as a cop leaped on the man from behind...
...year newspaper veteran whose father and grandfather were peace officers in Arizona territory, Reddick normally has no use for heroics. Why did he disarm the wife slayer? "Well," he explained, "I began to think, hell, when a man fires a gun into your face and it doesn't go off, it's just not your time...
Frank Riepl and Jack Hanlon tallied a touchdown apiece, both from within the ten yard line, in the Pensylvania win. The single Cornell marker followed a pass interference play against the Quakers as the final gun sounded. The Penn victory over Cornell coming after consecutive wins over Yale and Columbia adds up to Penn's first three-game winning streak since...
...surgeons learned last week of far-reaching Soviet progress in a difficult field -the rejoining of severed blood vessels. The Russians' answer to the problem: a stapling gun...